Next step --->
Dragging the Mac OS 7.5.5 image (about 100mb) on the flashing icon to mount the image
which has all the necessary system 7.5.5 software inside.

That's it!!! Everything should be working now. It's simple
and quick. ... and it's very stable. The only negative
is it takes up some RAM of your machine , but only
a few megs. There is NO slowdown of your computer
unlike other emulators.

Extra info:

Press the control key for help system.
CTRL-Q CTRL-Y to quit and then say yes
To start load of system software again ---->
go to Special menu and chose 'Restart' or 'Shutdown' and drag Disk.dsk
into window again

If successful, restart and then drag the disk.dsk on the flashing icon to start the system software.

To stop the emulation ---> Shutdown from Mac menu and
then close emulation window.

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I've included some apps I still had available
like a share ware version of stuffit, a menu clock
and a screen shot saver. The Wordperfect is a freeware
version. There is two versions of Stuffit . One
freeware and the other shareware. But beware that
these are old versions so they will only open early versions
of the archive format. This rule applies for
all old mac software. Formats have changed over the years.
Access to a new Mac machine may be necessary to open a
file!!

To make a screenshot press ALT - shift - 5
In the emulator the ALT key mimics Apple's Command key

Note that dragging any type of file into the emulator window will
convert it into a blank image!! But this practise is dangerous
since it zeros the file to make it a blank image.
Beware !! Data will be wiped out. You get a warning when
you drag the file into the emulator window but be careful anyway.
Name can be chosen. I renamed image file 'Disk.dsk'.
It's a good practise to use the extension .dsk for your
images that will be used. These images use
the old Mac file system known as HFS. The modern
SYSTEM X mac computers use a different file system known as HFS+
which is incompatible and the images use the extension .drg

Here is an alternate way to make an HFS file system image.
The author puts .hfs as the extension but .dsk would be preferable

Quote:

"I figured out one good way to shovel one's data into minivmac. You can make a little HFS image file from a collection of separate files using the (standard unix) CD authoring tool "mkisofs":

mkisofs -hfs -hfs-unlock -probe -V "My Stuff" -o stuff.hfs Stuff/*

This creates a HFS volume in the file "stuff.hfs", which can immediately be mounted in minivmac. Because mkisofs is so cool, this even works if your Mac files have been mangled to work on another platform using AppleDouble, BinHex, PC Exchange, netatalk, or MacOS X's external format."

This worked for me when I tried it on Red Hat Linux 9. I noticed the man page warns against using -hfs-unlock (which prevents the disk image being set as locked), since "it's not a 'real' HFS volume." And indeed, Disk First Aid and Norton Utilities found problems with the created disk image.

this looks interesting; i've been wondering for a few months about a virtual machine on puppy running a powerpc version of mac: i thought it might make the project of porting puppy to the powerpc architecture more achievable if puppy users could try out the port without needing an actual ppc compu.

do you have a sense of how useful this virtualisation might be in this way, or am i missing some obvious disqualifier?

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